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  1. Aircraft carrier ... Zeppelin!

    Airships are impractical as soon as decent engines are developed. Since engine design will always be on-going, the "better" engine is inevitable, To make airships a decent weapon system, you need to violate several basic laws of physics and aerodynamics. As has already been pointed out...
  2. Patrol Navy wins: A-6 Seaplane not Canceled

    I hate to bring this up, especially since it is a "cool" idea, but I must. Is there ANYTHING more vunerable than a seaplane while it's on the water? Anyone care to explain how it would be easier to load 60 -70 750 pound bombs onto a wing of seaplanes (say 12 planes) than it is onto the same...
  3. The Ripper Defeated

    I thought Jack was actually a non-corpeal being who lived off fear & he was finally wiped out by scattering its constitute atom across deep space via a transporter beam?
  4. Pre-Modern HIV/AIDS: Spread like wildfire or fizzle out?

    IIRC there is some evidence that HIV actually has been around for a long time (centuries?), but it never got the opprotunity to move due to transportation issues. If a sailor contracted it he would almost certainly have died well before reaching home, given the months, if not years that voyages...
  5. Mel's Latest

    Perhaps he doesn't realize that there is a difference? Am I the only one to notice the "slaughter of the innocent" theme (especially mixed with the "No civilization can be destroyed from without until it is destroyed from within" line from the beginning of the movie) & how nicely it plays into...
  6. WI Lenin doesn't die?

    1. Stalin DOESN'T see the beginning of WW II. Trotskey does. 2. Six - seven million or Soviet citizens are still around in 1939 that weren't because of Stalin. 3. The Red Army actually has a decent officer corps at the beginning of WW II. 4. Lenin's Tomb isn't built until after the War...
  7. Cold War Dictators who were "less evil"

    Where do you draw the line? I would much rather have lived under Tito than Stalin or Castro instead of Mao. Does that make them okay? Yugoslavia AFTER Tito is far worse off than it was with Tito; Does that make him less evil? I tend to think so. I would say that Tito was likely the best...
  8. Pearl Harbor WI

    Actually, if the American fighters had been given sufficient warning they could have been a major pain in the ass. The P-36's (39 or so available)wouldn't have been of much use against the Zero, but they would have done just fine against the Torpedo and Dive bombers, provided they got past the...
  9. What If Holly Gribbs survived the CSI pilot?

    You really need to get out of the house more.
  10. WI: McCarthur has his way in Korean War

    And a million Chinese "volunteers" fall on the UN supply lines with clubs and wipe out the invaders. 1950 nukes were not tactical weapons, the UN (read US) didn't have sufficient forces in Korea to sustain such an attack, and the USSR rolls over the Berlin Brigade & probably all of Germany...
  11. Australia and New Zealand join NATO

    Well, first off they'd have to change the name.:p North Atlantic Treaty Organization simply won't fit if you have the Anzac's (wrong Ocean, Hemisphere, side of the Dateline).
  12. Pearl Harbor WI

    Japan gets beaten into paste sooner. How soon depends on what you mean by defeat. If the ASB's put a couple of fleet boats with some torpedoes that actually work into the Kido Butai's OPArea the result is different than the Japanese hitting a dry hole (i.e. the Fleet being sent out to sea &...
  13. Japanese pilots

    Most important single change would be rotating the pilots OUT OF COMBAT and use them as trainers. This was what the United States did, and it paid huge dividends. The preserved their best pilots and got the hard won lessons of combat passed on all in the same action.
  14. Japanies Hv Bombers

    Scarcasm? Moi?:eek: Well, maybe a once in a while. :p It is worth noting that the reason the British & Americans were willing to send in unescorted bombers (something the British quickly chose to modify in hopes of reducing losses) was that their pre-war doctrine was based on the idea that...
  15. Japanies Hv Bombers

    To answer your question: Pretty much anytime somebody brings ASB quality issues to this part of the board, particularly involving impossible production feats during wartime, there is a decent chance of me responding. If the position posited is as full of holes as the one laid out here, the...
  16. Japanies Hv Bombers

    It could be, except for the fact that the U.S. had ALREADY taken the same defensive actions to defend against Japanese carrier strikes & possible invasion attempts immediately following Pearl Harbor. 100 bombers isn't an effective fighting force, especially when it will also be reducing the...
  17. Japanies Hv Bombers

    Fifty to one hundred bombers isn't an effective force. It's a single strike, after losses it's destroyed. Total waste of time.
  18. Japanies Hv Bombers

    1. To strike Hawaii you need a base, even if you are using B-24 range bombers. I have to point out that the B-29 was a quantum leap in bomber design (pressurized hull, automated, remotely operated defensive turrets, etc.) that no one else came close to equaling even by the end of the war. This...
  19. Me 262 VS Gloster Meteor

    I found 5 sources on the 'Net that all indicate the Swallow (262) had a top speed of 540 MPH (870 KPH. The speed on the Meteor is a bit more vauge, ranging from 580 MPH (930 KPH) to 600 MPH (965 KPH). In any case that makes the Meteor at LEAST 40 MPH faster than the Swallow. The simple fact is...
  20. Surviving Nazi Germany

    1. Have Hitler die in about Hanuary of 1939. 2. Don't invade Poland. 3. Settle for getting A/L back from France. Maybe same good deals on food & coal can be negiotated at the Peace Table. 4. Don't kill every single person who Hitler takes a dislike to, especially in groups (Jews...
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